A civil disobedience movement which first manifested on the streets of Hong Kong's financial district on September 28, 2014

Occupy Central is a civil disobedience movement which manifested in Hong Kong on September 28, 2014. It called on thousands of protesters to block roads and paralyse Hong Kong's financial district if the Beijing and Hong Kong governments did not agree to implement universal suffrage for the chief executive election in 2017 and the Legislative Council elections in 2020, according to what it described as "international standards."[1]

The movement was initiated by Benny Tai Yiu-ting, an associate professor of law at the University of Hong Kong, in January 2013. It receives funding, logistics and PR support from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and its subsidiary the National Democratic Institute; the word "National" in both cases referring to the USA, the government of which, together with many large Western Corporate sponsors, provide the bulk of their funding.

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